41Variation of building grants in Schedule 7, 7A or 7B

41 Variation of building grants in Schedule 7, 7A or 7B

(1) Subject to this section, the Minister may, from time to time, after receiving advice from the Commission, direct that this Act shall have effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in Column 3 of Part I, IV or VI, or specified in Part II, III or V, of a relevant Schedule were varied in accordance with that direction, and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied. (2) Subject to this section, the Commission may, from time to time, direct that this Act shall have effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in a relevant Schedule were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commission gives a direction with respect to the variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied. (3) Where the Minister approves a building project under paragraph 4(1)(a), (b) or (c), as a building project in respect of the year 1982, the year 1983 or the year 1984 the Minister shall direct that this Act shall have effect as if:

(a) the relevant Schedule were varied by including, in Part I, Part IV or Part VI, as the case requires, particulars of the project and of the amount of the approved expenditure on that project in respect of that year; and

(b) all or any of the amounts specified in the relevant Schedule were varied in accordance with the direction, being variations consequential on the inclusion in that Schedule of the new project having regard to the provisions of subsection (7);

and then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section):

(c) the particulars referred to in paragraph (a) shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day); and

(d) there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for the amounts referred to in paragraph (b), the amounts as so varied.

(4) The Minister shall not give a direction under subsection (3) that would have the effect of increasing or decreasing the aggregate of the amounts that may be paid to a State under section 13, 13A, 13B, 21, 21A, 21B, 34, 34A or 34B unless the State has agreed to the variation or variations. (5) The Commission shall not give a direction under subsection (2) involving a variation of an amount in Column 3 of Part I, IV or VI of a relevant Schedule that would have the effect of varying an amount specified in that column of that Part to an amount that is greater or less than: